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Specication of Letters Patent.

Application led July 11, 1916. Serial No.` 103,592.

To all 'Lv/tom t may concern:

Be it known that I, JOSEPH FoLwnLL Manie LEY, a citizen of the UnitedStates, and resident of Caldwell, in the county of Essex and State ofNew Jersey, have invented certain new and useful improvements in`implements for Trimming Bootsand `Shoes, of which the following is aspecification.

The object of this invention is to provide a simple, eHicient and cheapimplement hat ing means to hold a suitable knife blade or cutter, andcomprising means `to reciprocate said blade or cutter, whereby theimplement may be held in the `hand and guided to the work while theblade or cutter is` reciproare particularly adapted for use in removingsurplus heel stock, or for jointing the shanlr, of boots, shoes, sandalsand slippers, `as well as for slriving leather (or `its substitute) ortri1nming stock in manufacturing or repairing` boots, shoes and thelike.n

This invention comprises novel details of improvement and combinationsof parts that `will then pointed out in the claim.

Reference is to be had to the accompany ing drawings forming parthereof, wherein,

Figure 1 is a longitudinal section of an implement embodying thisinvention;

Fig. 2 is a section substantially on the line 2, 2, in Fig. l;

Fig. 3 is a side view of the implement,

Fig. d Fig. 3. l

The numeral 1 indicates a casing, shown in the form of a tube adapted tobe supported in the hand of the operator, and at 2 is a head adapted toreciprocate in the bore of the casing. Said head at its outer end isprovided with tool holding means. l have shown the outer end of saidhead as split or slotted at 3 to receive the tang or shank of a suitableknife-blade or cutter et.. At 5 is a clutch member shown in tubular toreceive threads 6 of head 2. The outer end of head 2 and thecorresponding inner end of member 5 are shown tapering at 7, wherebywhen said member is screwed upon head 2 said member will force the jawsof said head upon the tang or shank of the blade or is a section on theline 4, 4f, in

of a chuck. llhe head 5 is properly shaped to reciprocate within thebore of casing 1 y Shaft 12 is shown the cranlcdislr be more .fullyhereinafter `set forth and M shaft 1n block 13, a plate 25 gripping thelatter in the nature` with head 2, and whereby `the blade or cutter isguided. At 8 is a reciprocative rod pivotally connected with head 2.'lfhe apertured end 8a of rod 8 is shown received in the jaws or fork 9in the adjacent end of head 2, said jaws and in the aperture of saidrodpivotallyconnecting the rod with said head,

whereby the rodmay reciprocate casing. .shown provided with anceivingcranlr-disk 11 on a shaft is journaledin a block 13 locatedwithin casing or tubing 1. Block 13 is` provided with alongitudinallydisposed slot er recess 14: in which `rod 8 is adapted to operate.

within the opening "8b reshaft Said which purpose the end of providedwith a pintle 12;l ing or bore in one side of an annular bearing portion12h journaled in a bearing in the opposite side of bloclrlB, being`between pintle 12t`and bearing 12b, whereby said shaft is guided forrotation in said block. Tov retain the is shown having a hole in whichthe shaft rotates, which. plate is shown secured to the block by screws15. Bearing l2b is shown of greater diam eter than shaft 12 wherebyplate 25, by being located over bearing 12b retains the latthe shaftisshown ter and the shaft in operative position in the block. Casing ortube 1 is shown provided with a slot 16 leading to the edge of thecasing to receive shaft 12. At 17 the casing is shown provided with astop at one end of block 13 and at 18 is a cap screwed on the end of thecasing at of the block. Block 13 is retained in proper position in thecasing'between stop 17 and cap 18. At 19 is a hey secured to casing ortube 1 and extending into the bore of the latter, which key enters agroove 2a in the adjacent part of head 2, whereby the latter is guidedto reciprocate and kept froml rotation within said head.

'llhe arrangement described is such that when the head 2 is connected torod 8, and the latter and shaft 12 are connected to block 18, chuckmember 5 not being in position, the said parts may be pushed into thecasing, as from the right-hand end of Fig. 1, the groove 2Et of saidhead receiving stop 17 as the head 2 slides in the casing, the groove 2afinally receiving the key 19, the shaft 12 sliding in slot 16. Thereuponcap 13 may ratentea new. a, rie..

The opposite end of said rod is journaled in block 13, for

rotative in a bear-` bloclr 13 and with the opposite end a `10 locatedin a bore in efr iin

` or cutter shown has a bent end at i parts in position,

.such as to a suitable motor by means of a flexible shaft 20. lVhen theblade or cutter t is secured to head 2, the operator may manipulate theimplement in any desired manner to enable him to present the cuttingedge 'of the blade or cutter to the Work, as in the manner he would dowith an ordinary knife blade. The rotation of shaft 12 causes rapidreciprocation of the blade or cutter, and during such reciprocations ofthe latter it may be guided to cut the stock or material operated onmuch more rapidly than the operator could do With an ordinary bladeoperated by hand. The form of blade adapted to Work upon shoe heels andShanks. Since the head 2 and the blade or cutter are kept from rotationduring reciprocation the blade or cutter may be applied, as desired, tothe Work With accuracy and despatch.

A particular feature of this invention rcsides in its applicability tojointing the Shanks of boots, shoes, sandals and slippers to the heelfor removing surplus heel stock at such joint. For such Work theoperator may guide the implement so that the cutting edge Will berapidly reciprocated to cut out and shape the heel at such joint, sincehe Copies of this patent may be obtained for is enabled, by the easewith which the implement may be handled, to follow the contour of theheel accurately with the cutting edge of the blade or cutter.

Changes may be made in the details and arrangement of parts set forth,as the same may be varied, within the scope of the nppended claim,without departing from the spirit of the invention.

Having now described my invention what I claim is An implement of theclass described comprising a casing, a head reciprocative within thecasing, tool holding means upon the head, a rod pivotally connected withthe head, a block Within the casing having a recess receiving the rod, acrank-disk lwithin said recess coperative with said rod, a shaftcarrying said crank-dish, said shaft having a pintle journaled in theblock, and a plate secured upon the block and having a bore receivingthe shaft, said plate being cc-,ietive with said bearing of the shaft toretain the latter rotatively in the block.

Signed at Asbury Park, in the county of Monmouth and Statie of NewJersey this rst day of July, A. D. 1916.

JOSEPH FOLVVELL M ARKLIGY.

lVitnesses:

VINFLELD H. STEPHENS, HARRY M. WILSON.

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